The womens race was won by Helalia Johannes from Namibia in a time of 2:30:35 which was a new Namibian record and also qualified her for the London Olympics.
Sean Connolly was the first Irish man home in a time of 2:18:52 which was unfortunately outside the 2:15 qualifying time for the Olympics. In a subsequent TV interview, he said that he is likely to try for a sub 2:15 time again sometime in the Spring. The second Irish runner was Sergiu Ciobanu from Clonmel in a time of 2:20.56 while Alan O’Shea of Bantry AC was 3rd in 2:23.22. Well done Alan!!
The first Irish woman home was Linda Byrne of Dundrum South Dublin AC in a time of 2:36:21. Not only did Linda win the National Marathon title but she also qualifed for the 2012 London Olympics as she broke the 2:37 qualification time.
This was also Gerry Fordes 200th Marathon! Well done Gerry.
As a wheelchair athlete, Gerry has more Marathons completed than anyone in the UK and possibly even Europe? There is a previous post on Gerry HERE.
Results........depending on traffic levels...
1) You can try the official website HERE
2) Try this link to the timing service........HERE
Photos......(Updated 4th Nov 23:00)
1) David Bradshaw has 763 photos on HERE
2) PJCY has a small gallery of 12 photos HERE
3) Lindie Nauchton has a gallery of commercial photos HERE
4) Peter Mooney has a large gallery of 257 photos HERE
5) Derval Cunningham has a small gallery on Facebook HERE
6) mebets has a gallery of 651 photos HERE
7) Doug Minihane has a large gallery HERE
8) Stephen Kerr has 382 photos HERE
9) Infomatique has a gallery of 395 photos HERE
10) Fergus McNally has a huge gallery of 1411 photos HERE
11) Eleanor Shire has a small gallery of 35 photos HERE
12) Joe Murphy has a gallery of 128 photos HERE
13) John Dowling has a large gallery of 440 photos HERE
14) Pat Carey has 201 photos HERE
15) Tomás Breen has 95 photos HERE
16) Darren Spring has a large gallery on his own RacePix website
17) Anne Murphy has a nice gallery of 121 photos HERE
Video...(Updated 3rd Nov 5pm)
There are too many video clips to show on this page alone. This one however by Ronán Palliser is really good...
Dublin Marathon 2011 from Ronan Palliser on Vimeo.
I have 17 video clips up on the Running in Ireland website
This website also has personal video clips. Just put in your name or bib number.
RTE also have their coverage of the Marathon up on the RTE Player service........available until the 21st of Nov 2011.